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CCCCLXXVlr.— THERE WAS A SILLY SHEPHERD SWAIN. 421
So he mounted her upon a milk-white steed
Himself upon another ;
And then they rid upon the road
Like sister and like brother.
And when she came to her father's house.
Which was moated round about^ Sir,
She stepped straight within the gate.
And shut this young knight out. Sir.
If you meet a lady fair
As you go by the hill. Sir,
If you will not when you may.
You shall not when you will. Sir.
The English ballad is adapted to the old Scottish tune caU
led « Boyne Water."
CCCCLXXVIII.
KIND ROBIN L0E8 ME.
The words of this song, beginning " Robin is my only
jo,'" are taken from Herd's Ancient and Modern Songs, print-
ed in 1776. There is a much older set of verses to the same
air, however, but they are not quite fit for insertion.
In the " Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence," which was writ-
ten in the year 1692, it is said, that Mr James Kirkton, in
October last, preaching on hymns and spiritual songs, told
the people — there be four kinds of songs — profane songs, ma-
lignant, allowable, and spiritual songs ; as.
My mother sent me to the well —
She had better gane hersell ;
For what I gat I darna tell.
But kind Robin loes me.
This author of the Presbyterian Eloquence, however, was
incorrect in giving these four lines as a verse of " Kind
Robin loes me," for the three first lines belong to an old
song called " Whistle o'er the Lave o't," which may be seen